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WS01 - ご紹介の手紙 (Introduction letter)

Languages, Japanese, Years 9 and 10 (Year 7 entry)

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Japanese language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal world. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Japanese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Japanese to create texts. They use a combination of kana and a range of familiar kanji appropriate to context. 

 

Students apply features of the Japanese sound system to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the sound system in spoken exchanges and scripts for written texts, and select and use sentence and grammatical structures to interact, make meaning and create texts. They identify multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Japanese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating. 

Communicating meaning in Japanese | Interacting in Japanese

AC9LJ10EC01

initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal world

Communicating meaning in Japanese | Interacting in Japanese

AC9LJ10EC02

use Japanese language in exchanges to question, offer opinions and compare and discuss ideas

Communicating meaning in Japanese | Creating text in Japanese

AC9LJ10EC06

create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences, and use a combination of kana and kanji

Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language

AC9LJ10EU02

select and use structures and features of the Japanese grammatical and writing systems to enhance meaning and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Annotations

 

1. Writes a letter of introduction, sharing ideas and information, to a high school student in Japan. 

 

2. Uses letter conventions and the particle へ appropriately. 

 

3. Uses the て form of で to connect sentences. 

 

4. Conjugates a verb to express desires. 

 

5. Conjugates a verb using plain form. 

 

6. Uses the な adjective prior to a noun. 

 

7. Justifies an opinion using から. 

 

8. Demonstrates the use of katakana elongated vowels and double consonants. 

 

9. Creates text using a combination of kanji and kana.

10. Uses common kanji and counters.　 

 

11. Connects ideas using conjunctions. 

 

12. Concludes the letter appropriately.